Chen Tianhua was very angry. His original intention was to merge his Fengzhong Yangtze River Shipping Company with Sheng Xuanhuai's Neijiang Steamship Company and then cooperate with the Steamship Merchants Company.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shikai was able to take advantage of the situation.

But there is still a chance.

Chen Tianhua understood that Yuan Shikai in history was demoted back to his hometown in Xinyang, Henan Province two years later, in the first year of Xuantong. At this time, he could recapture the Steamship Investment Company.

This is why he has been so depressed since he came back from Shanghai yesterday.

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In the late Qing Dynasty, Shanghai was the most prosperous city along the Yangtze River.

But for cities worse than Shanghai, some people would point to Wuhan, Jiangning and other places.

In fact, at that time, there was such a city, which was called "Little Shanghai". It was crowded with merchants, had numerous ship docks, was full of government inns, and Buddhist meditation sites, and was extremely prosperous.

This city is Anqing.

The thousand-year-old ancient city of Anqing was the capital of Anhui Province in the Qing Dynasty. It was the political, economic and cultural center of Anhui Province and became one of the first cities to accept Western culture.

The provincial governor's yamen, the chief envoy's yamen, and the press envoy's yamen are all located here, under the jurisdiction of Anqing Prefecture.

Anqing is located in the southwest of Anhui Province. It was a port city during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, at the mouth of the Huaihe River, bordering Hubei to the west and Jiangxi to the south. It is known as 'the throat of the Yangtze River for thousands of miles, and the first state to separate Wu and Chu'

statement.

Since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, cities have been built here. It was once the seat of the ancient Anhui Kingdom, and Anhui's current abbreviation of "Wan" comes from this.

But in Chen Tianhua's impression, Anqing is only a fourth-tier city, and that's because of development planning in later generations.

In the thirty-third year of Guangxu's reign, on the sixth day of July, the day after Chen Tianhua returned from Shanghai, an earth-shattering event occurred in Anqing City.

Xu Xilin, the deputy general office of the Anhui Armed Forces Academy and the general office of the Patrol Academy, personally assassinated Enming, the governor of Anhui Province, at the graduation ceremony of the patrol cadets. He also led members of the Liberation Association to try to capture the armory. However, he was outnumbered and was arrested and imprisoned.

He was brutally murdered at the gate of the governor's office on the same day.

When Chen Tianhua got the news, it was already the evening of the seventh day of July, and he grieved for a while.

The famous Anqing Uprising in history ended in a very short period of time. If we call it an uprising, to be precise, it should be called the assassination of Governor Enming.

Because there were only three people participating in the operation that day, including Xu Xilin, it was destined to be a failed operation.

They had long been determined to die and bravely acted as revolutionary pioneers.

The far-reaching influence of this operation is far greater than the actual effect.

His significance lies in the fact that this was the first uprising since the founding of the Revolutionary Party, the first shot fired at the Manchu Dynasty. The entire government and the public were shocked. For a time, the senior officials of the Qing court were like frightened birds. They were all frightened and began to shake the foundation of the dynasty.

, with powerful shocking power.

From Chen Tianhua's point of view, the uprising plan was very incomplete, without a plan, and full of loopholes, leading to hasty actions.

Chen Tianhua knew about the Anqing Uprising in history, but he couldn't remember the month or day. He once asked Xu Yunyuan to find Liu Yufang and talk about the huge risks of the current uprising.

This time when I went to Shanghai, I also specifically found Chen Qimei and Liu Yufang, and patiently persuaded them to wait for the opportunity and not to be blind. They even expressed that they sympathized with the revolution and that he might participate when the time came.

Perhaps it was his confession that gave Chen Qimei and Liu Yufang hope and confidence, which prevented a series of uproar in the Liberation Society later.

Among them, what he was actually most worried about was Liu Yufang.

He got the news from Xu Yunyuan that Liu Yufang had secretly established a Liberation Society base in Shaoxing to secretly train members and dead soldiers of the Liberation Society.

Chen Tianhua felt sorry for Xu Xilin's generous sacrifice this time, but also felt very sad. After all, they had a relationship in Hengshan.

But Chen Tianhua was helpless. He knew he couldn't tell Xu Xilinming, so he had to remind Liu Yufang. It seems that he can't stop it now.

This once again proves that Xu Xilin was prepared to act as a pioneer and use his own blood to awaken the people.

Later history proved that he did it.

Chen Tianhua knew that according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, Xu Xilin committed the crime of treason and had his entire family executed.

Liu Yufang and others from the Liberation Association were unable to come forward, so only Chen Tianhua came to the rescue.

First, he assigned Gu Zhunian of the Investigation Department to rush to Anqing with the Rangers overnight, successfully rescued Xu Xilin's wife and children, and sent them to Liu Yufang and the others in Shanghai.

The Xu Xilin family belongs to a large and famous family in Dongpu Town, Shanyin County, Shaoxing.

Chen Tianhua used the influence of his father-in-law, the Admiral, to get the Shaoxing New Army and the patrol battalion to be open-minded, and deliberately postponed the arrest for one day.

At the same time, people were sent to ask the clan members to evacuate immediately and go their separate ways to escape.

But Xu Xilin's father, Xu Fengming, was a well-read history book, influenced by Confucianism, and was a big landowner and businessman. He insisted on not evacuating, thinking that Xu Xilin was rebellious and it was "the son's failure to teach, it is the father's fault." He stayed to take responsibility and was arrested by the government.

imprison.

Chen Tianhua ordered someone to write a piece of paper by "filling in the date backwards", angrily accusing Xu Xilin of being disobedient and unfilial, and claiming that he wanted to break away from the father-son relationship.

At the same time, several "letters from home" were found at Xu Xilin's home in Anqing, in which Xu Fengming warned his son to repay his kindness and to be loyal to Enming.

Perhaps Chen Tianhua, Wu Laosan, Lin Gen, A Hua and other well-known business people in Shuangqi Town submitted letters to the joint guarantee, plus Chen Tianhua's activities in Shaoxing Prefecture and even the governor's Yamen.

The case of extermination of the family was finally settled, and an edict was obtained stating that the Xu family and relatives were all innocent, and Xu Fengming was released.

I am afraid that only Chen Tianhua can settle such a difficult case of family extermination. In the end, no one in the Xu family or any relatives was implicated.

It’s not easy!

Every link is well coordinated, including oral confessions, etc., from the county, prefecture, provincial governor's office, all the way to the capital, layer by layer, and it is completely superb.

Anyone with a discerning eye can clearly see that Chen Tianhua did his best in this matter.

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The Anyuan Mountains are located in Pingxiang County in the west of Jiangxi Province. The veins of the Tianzi Mountains are rich in coal deposits. They belong to the Paleozoic Era. They are as black as paint and very shiny. They have low volatile matter, rich cohesiveness and high sulfur content. They are made of

Excellent coke for steelmaking.

Pingxiang Coal Mine is composed of the Anyuanshan Machinery Mine (later Anyuan Coal Mine) as the main mine, plus more than a dozen mining areas such as Tianzishan, Zijiakeng, Xiaokeng, etc., and is huge in scale.

It has been proven that there are coal fields in more than a dozen places such as Taipingshan and Wangjiayuan. The scale and storage capacity of the entire Pingxiang coal mine are several times that of the Niutoushan coal mine.

Sheng Xuanhuai built a narrow-gauge railway from the Anyuanshan mining area to Songjiafang, Pingxiang, expanded the wharf at Songjiafang, Pingxiang, and then boarded ships for water transportation.
Chapter completed!